POSTED BY: mspennylane
There are many weird and wonderful things that people do when they have trich, but are they really so weird? I hadn’t heard of some of them before, but really they all come down to the same thing.
Eating Hair (Trichophagia): Many people eat the hair, or the root. This is as much of a compulsion as the pulling, not any weirder than anyone else. However, it can result in hairballs forming in the stomach.
This is part three of a series of posts every Saturday on how rituals associated with trichotillomania… This can also be found at Marmalade Skies, my personal blog.
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I have trich and i have been doing alot better with my scalp for the last few years, but i still eat my eyelashes and stuff like that—i also have a tendency to bite my skin.
good blog
It’s so annoying that when we fight one thing, there are often others for us to face. But it is GREAT that you have been doing better with your scalp. I’m really trying too this week